SC. V.
ROMEO AND JULIET
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| Peter. | Pretty![C 1][E 1] What say you, Hugh Rebeck?[E 2] |
| Second Mus. | I say "silver sound," because musicians sound for silver.135 |
| Peter. | Pretty too![C 2]—What say you, James Sound- post?[E 3] |
| Third Mus. | Faith, I know not what to say. |
| Peter. | O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer; I will say for you. It is "music with her silver140 sound," because musicians[C 3] have no gold[C 4] for sounding: Then music with her silver sound With speedy help doth lend redress. |
[Exit.
| First Mus.[C 5] | What a pestilent[E 4] knave is this145 same! |
| Second Mus. | Hang him, Jack![C 6][C 7]—Come, we'll in here; tarry for the mourners, and stay dinner. |
[Exeunt.
- ↑ 133. Pretty!] Pope (from Q 1 Pretie); Prates Q; Pratest Q 3, F.
- ↑ 136. Pretty too!] Pope, from Q 1; Prates to Q; Pratest to Q 3, F.
- ↑ 141. musicians] Q, F; such fellowes as you Q 1;
- ↑ no gold] Q, F; seldom gold Q 1.
- ↑ 145. First Mus.] Capell, Min. Q, Mu. F.
- ↑ 147. him, Jack!] Hanmer; him Jack, Q, F.
- ↑ 147. Jack!] See II. iv. 163, note.
- ↑ 133. Pretty!] Here and in line 136 what is probably a misprint of Q Prates, modified to Pratest in Q 3, F, is followed by some editors. Pratest? Rowe; Pratest! Johnson; Prates! Delius. Compare the speech beginning "Prate you!" in Northward Hoe (Pearson's Dekker, iii. p 11).
- ↑ 133. Rebeck] a three-stringed fiddle.
- ↑ 136, 137. Soundpost] the pillar or peg which supports the belly of a stringed instrument.
- ↑ 145. pestilent] vexatious, as in Othello, II i. 252.
